1⧸3⧸18 - WAR!
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1 hour and 47 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, Glenn and Pat discuss the latest tweet from President Trump regarding North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-un. They also talk about the new hotline between North and South Korea, and whether or not Trump should be allowed to tweet again.
Transcript
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President of the United States, causing controversy again with his tweeting habits.
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If he just didn't tweet, I, right now, what would you have to complain about with Donald Trump?
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What he tweets is generally going to be that day's or the next day's headlines all over America and maybe the world.
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He tweeted exactly what we said on the air yesterday morning on this broadcast.
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When Kim Jong-un tweeted about, oh, I've got the button on my desk.
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You understand that the United States has a button, that Donald Trump's got a button, and it will fire off a lot more firepower than you're capable of.
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It'd destroy your stupid little country a thousand times over.
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Well, it's essentially exactly what he tweeted.
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I don't know if he was listening at the time and thought, yeah, that's a good point.
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Yeah, so, you know, there are things talk show hosts say that maybe the president shouldn't.
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I mean, you might have listened to the podcast.
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Because he's taken kind of a hard line on his...
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Because Kim Jong-un has definitely softened his rhetoric and his stance.
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I mean, now they're reopening that hotline between North and South.
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And that was something that was discontinued a while ago.
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And it didn't look like there was any possibility of getting that back.
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He also made overtures to the South Korean winner games.
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He said, you know, we wish them peace and believe they'll go off without a hitch.
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And everybody's been concerned about whether or not he would do some sort of strike and imperil the athletes of the world.
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And he seemed to kind of reassure people that that's not in the cards.
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It may be a good thing that Trump has taken such a hard line with this guy.
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We've said it for many years about a lot of the dictators around the world that they, you know, us coming in being nice, nice only makes us look weak in their eyes.
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But for the part of the media, they go out of their mind when Trump does this kind of stuff.
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Colby Hall tweeted out, in hindsight, we should have all predicted the big and powerful button position from this administration.
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This fool just written nuclear war over Twitter.
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His cabinet members should invoke the 25th Amendment.
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Teddy Roosevelt speaks softly and carry a big stick.
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Donald Trump, tweet loudly and boast about the size of your nuclear button.
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President Trump is not one that we've learned to be able to take a,
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So he's actually doing what people put him in office to do.
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we're the United States of America and you're not.
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this was one of the things that we weren't excited about with the possibility of Trump.
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And yet it's one of the things that is sort of working.
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and that's what we have a state department for,
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and it's hard to believe that he didn't realize that or he,
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because based on the things that he says and does,
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it's difficult to live up to deity and that's what they presented themselves as.
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he has done some great foreign policy maneuvers,
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obviously acknowledging Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was one.
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maybe because yesterday he appeared to threaten to cut off USAID money to the
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When the Palestinians are no longer willing to talk peace.
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And Pakistan because they're harboring terrorists.
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And we continue to just funnel hundreds of millions,
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billions of dollars to Pakistan and to the Palestinians.
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the U S pays the Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars a year,
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And I think there's a lot of Americans who've been frustrated about that for a long time.
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Donald Trump elected president in the first place.
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So don't be mad that he's doing what you wanted to,
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what you were at least that's why he got elected.
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What those people who elected him wanted him to do.
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pulling the plug on some of that cash to those terrorist entities would,
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You can also tune in right after this show on the blaze radio and TV network for
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to potentially withhold funds from the Palestinians.
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Why will we keep funneling funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to him every year?
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has just made it nearly impossible to ever allow a divided Jerusalem.
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towards Israel as if this ends all hope of peace.
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let's say Canada was demanding that we divide Washington DC in,
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in half and they get part of Washington DC and we keep the other part.
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we want half of Washington DC and you can keep the other half and,
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Lawmakers approved a bill in the early hours of,
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yesterday that required a special two thirds majority vote in the Knesset to
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of Jerusalem to the Palestinians under any future peace accord.
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because that's not two thirds of the Knesset is never going to agree to that,
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if they would agree to at least recognize Israel as a state,
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the ruling class in the Palestinian territory and the Gaza strip,
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When I hear these commercials on the radio and TV and it,
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that he has to comply with a selective service law or he'll lose,
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Why don't we have commercials on the radio and TV telling these illegals that
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they're breaking a law that they can't get this.
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We can take away your house and the rest of the stuff,
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Are you going to take your family with you or not?
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We've gotten to such a ridiculous point that you're right.
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You guys were talking earlier about Donald Trump and his tweets.
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I really and truly think that what he's doing is bypassing the media modern day,
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They just bypass the media and go straight to the people.
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And with the fact that the media hates him so intensely,
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he sets the tone and he sets the agenda every day.
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the hardline stance that he's taken on North Korea.
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listening to you guys talking about Kim Jong-un,
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if you really understood the history of the United States and how much we have gone to war,
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And if you think you've got the stones to come at us with that button,
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you better be prepared because not only are we back-to-back World War champs,
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that says it a little more eloquently than he did,
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we were just kind of assessing our last colors statement that,
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we are undefeated in war in the United States of America.
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Now there are those who would maybe dispute that Vietnam,
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trying to figure out what our record actually is.
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And maybe you just tweet that out to Kim Jong-un,
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I say it's a win because our goal there was not to,
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take over North Korea was to keep them above the 38th parallel,
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you could say Vietnam was next after Korea and,
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I think you could consider the present Iraq war,
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I want Trump to tweet that about 10 hours from now after he listens to the podcast.
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support any kind of military conflict with North Korea.
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It seems to me that you guys are kind of as soft as the Democrats,
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Cause he's not going to stop until somebody stops.
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because he doesn't care if his people starve out,
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he doesn't care about anything except his own preservation.
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And he believes that proliferation of the nuclear weapons that he possesses is his way to do that.
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So do we sit to him or do we just continue to do this jaw boning that doesn't work?
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what's the solution other than a military option?
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To get the missiles and the artillery and to get him.
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And I think Trump's hard line is helping keep him at bay.
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I don't know what else the guy will understand.
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are you talking about a preemptive strike then?
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he's already threatened nuclear war against the United States.
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And he's also threatened nuclear war against our,
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He's already thrown missiles into the sea of Japan.
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We're going to see a mushroom cloud in San Francisco or Tokyo or in Seoul,
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Because the guy has already said he's going to use it.
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So you would do a preemptive nuclear strike on North Korea?
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and the killer drones get rid of all the artillery in the,
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right where the demilitarized zone is to keep them from destroying Seoul and,
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surely they would know if the silos open with the killer drones,
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they have up that can smile on the thing 24 seven.
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taking military action could really escalate into a war,
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telling us that they're doing what they need to do with North Korea.
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I don't see them going to war on behalf of North Korea,
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is that we've been pussyfooting around with us,
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And he's only got stronger militarily weaker in every other aspect,
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there's gotta be something done to this guy or he's really going to become a
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the point of view of most Americans is that we've got peace right now.
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but it's still not war with North Korea and it's not war with China and it
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So I think most people would probably advocate not taking military action at
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when Neville Chamberlain called peace in our time,
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All you gotta do is look at what the guy is doing,
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He believes his only preservation is the ability to destroy other countries and
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it would have been a lot better than just waiting on him to do what he did.
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And I don't think I've ever said there should never be military intervention in
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I don't think that's the best solution right now.
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But I don't think he's enough of a threat that we could sell that to the world of
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that the belief is that he would actually act right.
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we care very little about the UN and some of the other countries,
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but we do have some allies that we do care about.
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selling it to them as South Korea is one of those allies,
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damage North Korea could do to Seoul with what they have already in place.
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And so to hit them and not knock out all of their capabilities of hurting
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And then there's got to be a retaliation after that.
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Even if we're not the ones who killed Kim Jong-un,
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if you're inside North Korea and thinking about taking over,
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I'm glad I'm not the one making a decision because it's an impossible
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there's so many ramifications to any action and that's why we've continued the
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we've gotten to this point where anything we do could just destroy the
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taking any action will change the course of history.
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like we think that Donald Trump looks at America,
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I'm surprised that he hasn't blown him off the map already.
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He and his dad and his father before him there.
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The other element is I'm not even sure they have the capability he claims to have.
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I don't know that missiles can reach mainland America.
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has China provided them with what they need in order to reach the U S mainland?
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From where they're at overall to having an underground capability of being able to shoot a missile thousands of miles.
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Do you take the chance and then do a preemptive strike?
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Pat Gray Unleashed coming up right after the show on Blaze Radio and television.
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We don't have a military presence like we do in South Korea.
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you don't have to have a military presence there to,
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But that wasn't because that was after we left.
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I believe we've got to protect our borders and our,
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That's one of the reasons I'm so hesitant to start saying,
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military intervention is appropriate here because we don't do military intervention the way we used to do it.
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We go in halfway every time and halfway is not going to be good enough.
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if you're absolutely committed to crushing the enemy and then getting out,
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You don't let political correctness enter into your prosecution of a war.
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Cause it looked like we were going to do that in the first Iraq war.
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and that's happened every time since world war two,
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It's Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn all this week.
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They've quickly replaced Matt Lauer on the today show.
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And there's some controversy on the Hoda Kotb front.
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And Hoda Kotb is making a paltry $7 million a year.
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So that's $18 million less than Matt Lauer was making.
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you add up the salaries of the two of the co-anchors now.
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I glance at the TV as we're on the air and that,
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but I've never seen the Kathy Lee and Hoda show or whatever it is.
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but they're going to make a discrimination thing out of this because she's making so much less than I was.
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a genuine television star and has been for a couple of decades,
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Nobody has the recognition that Matt Lauer does.
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And so that came with a price and he was able to,
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It doesn't have anything to do with her gender.
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I just don't think she's the magnitude of where Lauer was.
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you're not going to pay if Hoda and Savannah can lay out some numbers that are serious and get to keep the viewers.
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And that's unfair because Matt got all 25 million to himself.
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He does the weather and he talks to the audience once in a while.
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I I'm not sure too many people are going to shed a tear for,
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We were talking last week because of the president's,
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And yesterday it was my buttons bigger than your button.
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Let us to discussing a military options for North Korea or not.
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we had a caller claim that the United States has never lost.
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And we should probably point that out to Kim Jong-un.
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and we've heard from them that we lost the Vietnam war.
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and merged those two countries under a communist regime.
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We had to leave to enable them to sweep into South Korea and,
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Not that history books are paying attention to the way I've always summed it up.
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What a massive honor that the famous Pat Gray and maybe more,
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right outside of Columbia and then booming with South prop,
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about 50,000 people and just a few less head of cattle.
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you don't realize that when you guys say that it's our honor.
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which means we served the president at the pleasure of the people.
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this is why your show is so important because you guys are throwing out
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anybody that's because we lost doesn't know history and they probably
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are young and they probably haven't covered it in,
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And that's like a lot of other things they don't know.
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the Viet Cong stopped functioning as a fighting force.
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And you paved the way for guys like me to serve guys and gals like me to serve.
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this is why your show is so critically important.
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making sure that history is shown to be the right history.
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I've been listening to you guys since just after,
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and all I can say is that you make me laugh up wariously.
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And I'm proud to say that you guys are in our market and,
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we appreciate everything that you do and I am done.
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I wholeheartedly agree with the fact that we did not lose in Vietnam.
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And the perception really began with Walter Cronkite that we were losing in Vietnam.
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during the Tet Offensive actually claimed virtually claimed that America was being overrun or that the United States troops were being overrun.
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tens of thousands of North Vietnam troops amassed and,
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Walter Cronkite spun that as a loss and that the Vietnam war was going poorly.
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because he was so important to Americans daily lives,
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the most trusted man in America and all that people just bought into it from 1968 on.
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And the perception pretty much was with Americans we're losing.
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history books kind of went along with that theory.
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go to North Vietnam and take the fight to them.
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I'm still wiping my tears from Coda's bad news.
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Trump is such a negotiator and a successful one.
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And I think it's because he knows how to get down to the level of who he's negotiating with.
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And I think that's exactly what he's doing with Kim is he's getting down to his language,
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and he knows how to get under the skin of the media.
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stay tuned for next week that Trump's going to be giving out these awards.
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it's so amazing for the president of the United States.
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Never a dull moment in the Trump administration.
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It's an honor and a real honor and a pleasure to talk to you guys this morning.
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requiring drug screening for unemployment checks.
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And of course the left is going crazy saying that that is dehumanizing and insulting.
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I hope it's not too early for a little common sense and logic.
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let's look at that from that perspective before a person can get an unemployment check.
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They first have to have employment to get a check.
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They're required to pass a drug test with some companies.
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If you have to pass a drug test to get an employment check.
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You should be required to pass a drug test to get an unemployment check.
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I think this is nothing more than another step from those,
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members of the movement to resist Trump on all fronts.
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and I think he's still ahead of Breitbart, right?
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between the president's son and a group of Russians
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warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin
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It's not going to go over good with our president.
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This is the big banner headline right now on Drudge,
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which obviously the president reads continuously.
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And when he sees the huge Bannon banner headline in red,
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Well, yes, but the owner lost the team afterwards,
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you weren't too high on Trump's getting elected.
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And I think now, are you saying that you are proud of the job he's doing?
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I'm saying that I'm pleasantly surprised with the job he's done.
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And, you know, as we said at the very beginning,
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we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and see what happens.
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I mean, I still have problems with him and the way he conducts himself and Twitter.
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But some of the things he's done, and we've outlined them,
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and we'll do so again, I'm sure, have been very, very good.
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You can also catch Pat Gray Unleashed right after the show
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Should clear up, because our last caller mentioned our feelings for Donald Trump
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Even Donald Trump would tell you he's not a conservative.
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But when he was, when the election came and went,
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we stated from the very beginning of his presidency
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this president has done some really good things.
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that I've, I can't remember the last time we saw that.
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We've also had huge gains in the war against ISIS.
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there's been a lot of things to be pleased about.
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They passed a tax cut bill that was kind of Congress,
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because we didn't jump on his bandwagon immediately
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Even though you might not be the biggest supporter,
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I think the difference between winning and losing
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In World War II, the generals were left in charge.
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Well, first, you have to have the people's attention.
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And that's what the discussion has been on our part,
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So we're just making sure everybody understood.